Also known as: La padrona è servita, I maitressa, Die Herrenreiterin, The Boss Is Served.

Description:As the movie begins, a bankrupt Italian count has just committed suicide. One of his creditors has taken over the household property, but he enables the widow, the mother, and the three adult sisters to stay on. The creditor is a rich businessman, but also basically an uncouth peasant (who fancies himself an opera singer). Nonetheless, the dimwitted, sex-crazed sisters try to seduce both him and his virginal, shy son whom accompanies him. But both guys end up falling in love with the voluptuous widow (Senta Berger) creating a kind of incestuous love triangle.

If you’ve seen a lot of Italian sex comedies, you know they tend to vary greatly from fairly arty and sophisticated to really, truly stupid. This one is more on the arty side. The plot type of resembles the Anton Chekov play “The Cherry Orchard”, but played more for laughs than tragedy. The film also references the many famous arty sex comedy of this era, the Laura Antonelli movie “Malizia”, with its plot line of an “incestuous” connection between a son and a stepmother (although the son here is a youthful adult rather than an adolescent).

This is a very good role for Senta Berger and the two male leads are also quite good. They kind of underused the domineering, seanced-obsessed mother though, and they also certainly underused the sexy Erika Blanc (one of my favorite Italian exploitation actresses and main explanation for seeing this), who plays the earliest child. The unknown actress whom plays the youngest child has some memorably sexy scenes, but they appear totally grafted onto the rest of the film. (Her gratuitous nude scenes are enjoyable, but really her whole role is totally gratuitous). She also looks to be little more than half the age of Berger and Blanc (but obviously they desired a panty-flashing “lolita” to complement the two voluptuous older “madonnas”).

I wouldn’t recommend this to many people, but if you like Italian sex comedies (which, I’ve to acknowledge, I kind of do for some reason), you could far, far worse than this one.